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Ringo Starr Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band (PolyGram) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Previously released on laserdisc, this live-in-concert footage, pieced together from a few 1990 shows, finds former Beatle Starr accompanied by a lineup that includes Clarence Clemons, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Dr. John, Jim Keltner, Nils Lofgren, Billy Preston and Joe Walsh. While Ringo might get top billing, this is a decidedly democratic, everybody-take-a-turn affair, with a variety of lead vocalists, including Starr (on "Yellow Submarine" and "Act Naturally," among other numbers)

The boats are built of cardboard and held together with duct tape -- some with funny names like Cardboard Knievel. But the goal for participants in the America's Cardboard Cup Regatta in Crystal Lake is the same as in any competition: They want their homemade boats to win. About 200 boats compete annually in the regatta held at Crystal Lake's Main Beach. The launch this year will begin at noon Saturday with most captains and their crews propelling the boats with paddles or oars.

KidNews reporter Lou Carlozo searched out chart-toppers from boy-band pop to classic rock, country to r&b. See if you can spot the missing lines to these lyrics! Answers are below left. 1) THE BEATLES, "YELLOW SUBMARINE" So we sailed into the sun ------------------------- And we live beneath the waves In our yellow submarine a) With the man who sailed to sea b) 'Til we found the sea of green c) Where the clouds are like whipped cream d) Just my sailor dog and me 2)

It is jarring to realize that two of our fresh-faced, mop-topped lads from Liverpool have already passed on to their celestial reward. It seems like just yesterday when the Beatles burst upon the American music scene like an atom bomb in those cold, waning days of 1963. Their cheeky, irrepressible exuberance was a fabulous help in lifting the national depression following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Soon my greaser pompadour had disappeared to be replaced by long, shaggy hair heroically crowned with the requisite Beatle bangs, much to my dad's bewildered consternation.

You have been there before: On your couch, 2 a.m. Sunday morning, nodding off to TV infomercials selling greatest hits collections from decades long past. In your drowsy state, all the power riffs and sitars and mullets and prayer beads start to make you feel like you're stuck in a time capsule that has been welded shut. Replace the couch with a plastic folding chair and it captures the feeling Sunday at the Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island, where Ringo Starr and the 10th installment of his All-Starr Band performed a night of oldies, only some of them actually goodies.

About every 12 minutes somewhere in the world a movie critic is asked, "Whatever happened to cartoons and selected short subjects?" The answer has to do with the fact that major studios no longer produce them, that theater owners can squeeze an extra feature into the minutes it takes to show the shorts several times a day, and that the shorts are considered expendable in that they are not in themselves a draw. But for the next 10 days at the Music Box Theatre, cartoon-starved moviegoers can fill up on a year's worth of short subjects with "The 21st International Tournee of Animation," an anthology of outstanding contemporary animation selected annually by members of Hollywood's chapter of the International Animated Film Association.

In a surprise move, my husband painted the kitchen while I was out of town. Yellow. Not mellow yellow, either. More, hello yellow! "Yellow Submarine," even. "I was going for a Key West look," hubby said. "Uh-huh, more Bahamas, really," I said, trying to get into the spirit, despite heckling from our daughter. ("She's going to say something critical any minute, just wait.") Over the next five minutes I found several positive things to say: "It looks better than it did before."

Here is Monday's schedule of the 21st Chicago International Film Festival. The offerings, when available for screening, have been reviewed by Tribune critics. Reviews of festival films will appear daily in Tempo and in the Friday section. Films will be shown at the McClurg Court Theater, 330 E. Ohio St., and Music Box Theater, 3733 N. Southport Ave. "Tea in the Harem of Archimede" (France), 6 p.m., McClurg Court. Two teens--one French and the other Arab--from lower-income families pimp, whore, mug and hustle their way to adulthood; based on director Mehdi Charef's semi- autobiographical novel.

Of the four Beatles, Ringo Starr may not have been the best singer or the most prolific writer, but he has certainly learned how to make the best of his considerable talents over the long haul. Since 1989, Ringo has toured with the All Starr Band, a revolving cast of musicians whose voices, generally heard with since-disbanded groups, can be heard in regular rotation on classic rock stations. The six-piece All Starr Band that played to a nearly full Rosemont Theatre Tuesday night, was the smallest of the eight iterations of the group.

Henry Allingham, 113, World War I veteran who at the time of his death was the world's oldest man and the last surviving original member of the Royal Air Force; July 18, in England. Twiley W. Barker Jr., 83, professor who helped establish the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-wrote a widely used textbook on civil rights and the Constitution; July 13, in Chicago, after a long respiratory illness. John S. Barry, 84, former president and chief executive of WD-40 Co., who is credited with helping turn the rust-preventer for missiles into a household brand; July 3, in La Jolla, Calif.